NLDS Game 3: Cardinals 8, Nationals 0.
Nothing to cheer about. Unfortunately, the first playoff game in D.C. since 1933 resembled too
many of the regular season games played in D.C. between 2008-2009. The not-so-good Edwin Jackson showed up, not that it mattered.

Update: the game is over, but the Nationals reportedly just stranded another runner in scoring position. 11 LOB on this day.

The clip below (here also) is new to us: On CBS's Face the Nation last week, Bob Schieffer goes into painful detail about what 79 years without playoff baseball in D.C. was like. Bob Schieffer Ignites his #Natitude:

"Well, that's inexperience, too. Had a little rally going
there and he was in scoring position and he tried to get to third, and
that kind of killed the rally we had going. Again, that's just a little
inexperience. He's overly aggressive there. He didn't tag up. He had to
go back and tag up, and that was right. But it was wrong to try to go to
third."(Bryce Harper, via MASNSports.com, 10/8/2012)

And so, Bryce Harper collected his first hit of the postseason in Game 2 (a hustle double, of course), then proceeded to out-hustle himself, and the Nats, out of the 7th inning. With Harper on 2nd and Jayson Werth on third, Ryan Zimmerman lined out to left. Werth scored. Harper didn't tag up, then went back to second to tag up. Matt Holliday proceeded to bounce/roll the ball to Daniel Descalso -- one of the most pathetic "throws" you've ever see in MLB. And still, Descalso cut down Harper at third. Rally killed. Relive the horror in the video above - or on MLB.com here. Still, blame for this loss rests on bad pitching by the Nats - or good hitting by the Cardinals if you prefer.